Moving project to another folder in Eclipse

Question

I generally have my working projects sitting on folders on my Desktop. When they are completed I just move them to a c:\\dev\\. The thing is I\'m doing it in a

Answer 1

I don't know whether eclipse has made modifs since the date of this post... In my case I had moved a project folder manually and I wanted Eclipse to open the project on this new location. This is what I did (and it seems to work).

• (I'm using eclipse "helios" v 3.6.2)

• File menu | Import ...

• General | Existing projects into Workspace

• Select root directory = top directory of your project on the new location

• Finish

Answer 2

Use Eclipse's Move menu item

Open Navigator view, right click on your project and click Move. Then select the destination directory.

Navigator View > Right Click > Move

Note it doesn't seem to work in Package Explorer (at least not in Neon). The move dialog from Package Explorer is different, so use the Navigator window.

Answer 3

I copied the whole project to a new directory. After setting Eclipse to the new workspace it recognises the project instantly. Thus it was nothing further to do. I use Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers, Version Luna Service Release 2 (4.4.2).